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MISAWA MEMORIAL CANCELED, YUJI NAGATA RETURNS TO TNT TOMORROW, DDT CYBERFIGHT AND MORE FROM JAPAN

All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling has rescheduled its show on May 16 in Ota Ward Gymnasium to June 26 due to the extended state of emergency in Japan.

Champion Carnival winner Jake Lee will still challenge SUWAMA for the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship at the show, although it seems other parts of the card might change.

All Japan has announced it will hold a show on May 19 in Yokohama where Izanagi and Zeus will attempt their fifth defense of the All Asia Tag Team Championships against Dan Tamura and Hikaru Sato – a match previously scheduled to take place on the May 16 show.

The full card for All Japan’s new show on May 19 is:

• Rising HAYATO vs. Yoshitatsu
• Francesco Akira vs. Koji Iwamoto
• Black Menso~re and Takao Omori vs. Hokuto Omori and TAJIRI
• Atsuki Aoyagi, Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi vs. Fuminori Abe, Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa
• All Asia Tag Team Championships: Izanagi and Zeus (c) vs. Dan Tamura and Hikaru Sato
• Jake Lee, Koji Doi and Kuma Arashi vs. Ryuki Honda, Shotaro Ashino and SUWAMA

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH has cancelled its Mitsuharu Misawa memorial show on May 30 in Ota Ward Gymnasium due to the extended state of emergency in Japan.

Three title matches had been scheduled for the show: Takashi Sugiura’s first defense of the GHC National Championship against Kazushi Sakuraba, HAYATA and Yoshinari Ogawa’s sixth defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships against Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara and Atsushi Kotoge’s second defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Yuya Susumu.

Additionally, there was a big tag team match scheduled pitting Keiji Mutoh and Masato Tanaka against Masakatsu Funaki and Naomichi Marufuji.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling has announced three new matches for the CyberFight Festival on June 6 in Saitama Super Arena.

The announced matches are:

• Arisu Endo, Haruna Neko, Mirai Maiumi, Moka Miyamoto and Suzume vs. Mahiro Kiryu, Nao Kakuta, Pom Harajuku, Raku and ‘X’
• Hyper Misao and Shoko Nakajima vs. Miu Watanabe and Rika Tatsumi vs. Nodoka Tenma and Yuki Aino
• Hikari Noa, Mizuki and Yuki Arai vs. Maki Itoh, Marika Kobashi and Yuki Kamifuku

DDT Pro-Wrestling has announced Yuki Iino will face Naomi Yoshimura at its show on May 23 in Kobe. The updated card for the show is:

• Hideki Okatani vs. MAO
• Danshoku Dieno vs. Keigo Nakamura vs. Toru Owashi
• Daisuke Sasaki, Soma Takao and Tetsuya Endo vs. HARASHIMA, Kazuki Hirata and Yukio Naya
• Naomi Yoshimura vs. Yuki Iino
• Akito and Yusuke Okada vs. Toi Kojima and Yuki Ueno
• Ultimate Tag League: Antonio Honda and Chris Brookes vs. Konosuke Takeshita and Shunma Katsumata
• Ultimate Tag League: Jun Akiyama and Makoto Oishi vs. Kazusada Higuchi and Yukio Sakaguchi

New Japan Pro Wrestling

Yuji Nagata will return to TNT programming for the first time since 1998 tomorrow to challenge Jon Moxley for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship on All Elite Wrestling’s Dynamite show.

The match will be Moxley’s fourth defense of the title, having defeated Juice Robinson, Minoru Suzuki and KENTA since winning the title from Lance Archer on the first night of Wrestle Kingdom 14 on January 4, 2020.

New Japan sent Nagata on excursion to World Championship Wrestling in 1990s, where he faced the likes of Chris Jericho and Dean Malenko on Monday Nitro on TNT.

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